Warning of errant apostrophies

alanalea

If all you have to worry about in life is an apostrophe, I really really want your life

baddiebasher

Halloway wrote: »

That's a bit rich coming from someone who can't spell "apostrophes".

Oops!:o I did mean apostrophes

as for the latin bit, revera linguam latinam vix cognovi

Halloway

moonrakerz wrote: »

"pretensious"!, oh dear oh dear !

Pots and kettles, stones and glass houses spring to mind.

Arf! What a clanger.

moonrakerz

Westonbirt Arboretum this evening - nice bit of sign writing, shame about the punctuation !

(sorry it's a bit blurred, I couldn't be bothered to get the tripod out again )

Halloway

moonrakerz wrote: »

Westonbirt Arboretum this evening - nice bit of sign writing, shame about the punctuation !

That's outstanding. What gets me is, just what the hell did the signwriter think he was doing? I can understand it if some low-IQ costermonger writes something like:

Potatoe's

on his blackboard.

But for !!!!'s sake, isn't it part of a signwriter's basic training to get to understand the usage of the apostrophe in the English language? How !!!!ing difficult is it?

In Hull there is a salubrious eaterie on Anlaby Road called "Neice,s Diner". That's a diner belonging to someone whose full name presumably is 'Denise'. But for !!!!'s sake, the apostrophe is UPSIDE !!!!ING DOWN.

What is more bizarre is that this particular heater-up of potatoes and animal products remains in business, even in these straitened times.

hollydays

No,i suspect all a signwriter cares about is painting what the client ask for (the clients responsibility is to do the proofreading).

I have seen a spelling error on a massive sign on a car sales outfit.We can't all be perfectly educated,but many still get by!!

baddiebasher

The apostrophe is still there.

It's annoying because the tippex on my screen is now blocking out other bits that I want to see.

Now if I rub it off and just tippex again before I see the offending apostrophe, I fear a national shortage of tippex.

Just what do I do?

CHR15

Can you people not see the bit saying CORNWALL??
Shame you couldn't have taken a pic of the webbed fingers and the pointy head.

There's a post on here somewhere about a bithday cake.
The icing message was read out over the phone, when the cake arrived it had something along the lines of:

Happy birthday dad
and underneath love the kids

:laugh:

peediedj

get a life!!! theres people dying in the world,people with severly disabled kids etc,and ur stressing about this!!!!!!!!!!!

baddiebasher

Not stressing - just annoyed.

There is little more annoying than some randomly placed apostrophe.